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The part about a requirement to catapult launch resulting in a strong floor design is interesting.

The Old Grey Lady

You have made a slight spelling mistake with the thread title. It should read Shackleton. Interesting video.

bobp wrote:You have made a slight spelling mistake with the thread title. It should read Shackleton. Interesting video.

Roger. QC slipping.... Corrected.

Wish we could see some of the classics across the pond.

Was the Shackleton the last piston engined frontline aircraft in service in NATO and yhe Warsaw Pact?

"Not so much an airplane as a thousand rivets flying in close formation."

My father has a way with words about planes sometimes. :p

RetroSicotte wrote:"Not so much an airplane as a thousand rivets flying in close formation."

My father has a way with words about planes sometimes. :p

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Elegantly put.

It's a shame that all but 12 were decommissioned, only to have the 12 soldier on 19 more years. Seems more could have been kept.

I imagine your childhood had some interesting stories.

Don't go and see the one at Duxford, the last time I was there (admittedly a couple of years ago), she looked in a right state

Little J wrote:Don't go and see the one at Duxford, the last time I was there (admittedly a couple of years ago), she looked in a right state

That's the one we were looking at. She's a little better now, they've got her in a separate sheltered hall for work, so things bode well. (She's currently sitting with a Eurofighter and a Valiant)

GastonGlocker wrote:

RetroSicotte wrote:"Not so much an airplane as a thousand rivets flying in close formation."

My father has a way with words about planes sometimes. :p

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Elegantly put.

I imagine your childhood had some interesting stories.

It was only in the last couple years I started going to airshows and museums with him, so not so much my childhood. (Although he did get me Airfix Spitfires!) His other one I always remember was on the Jaguar, in the same 'formula' as the Shackleton quote:

"It doesn't so much take off as just eventually leave the curviture of the earth."

Avro Shackleton - Ecological Bomber

(Mark Felton Productions) 11th April 2020

How to solve a serious ecological crisis? Use the Avro Lancaster's grandson, the venerable Avro Shackleton, to get the job done! This is exactly what the South Africans did in 1971.